Public Act 094-1050
 		





SB2654 Enrolled
LRB094 18487 HLH 53812 b






    AN ACT concerning special districts.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:

 
    Section 5. The Tuberculosis Sanitarium District Act is 
amended by adding Section 5.4 as follows:



 
    (70 ILCS 920/5.4 new)

    Sec. 5.4. Dissolution of Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis 
Sanitarium District; disposition of land and real estate; 
continuation of District levy.
    (a) Notwithstanding any
provision of law to the contrary, 
the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District is

dissolved by operation of law one year after the effective date 
of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly.
    (b) On or before the day 2 months after the effective date 
of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the Board 
of Directors shall forward to the Cook County Department of 
Public Health all transition plans relating to the 
consolidation of all of the existing programs, personnel, and 
infrastructure  of the District into the Cook County Bureau of 
Health Services to be administered by the Cook County 
Department of Public Health. Beginning on the effective date of 
this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the District 
shall not make any enhancements to pensions.
    (c) Upon dissolution of the District: (i) all assets and 
liabilities of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis 
Sanitarium District
dissolved
under this amendatory Act of the 
94th General Assembly shall be transferred to the Cook County 
Board and the monetary assets shall be deposited into a special 
purpose fund for the prevention, care, treatment, and control 
of tuberculosis in suburban Cook County; (ii) the Cook County 
Department of Public Health shall assume all responsibility for 
the prevention, care, treatment, and control of tuberculosis

within the area of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis 
Sanitarium District
dissolved
under this amendatory Act of the 
94th General Assembly, including the provision of tuberculosis 
care and treatment for units of local government with 
State-certified local public health departments; and (iii) 
employees of the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium 
District become employees of Cook County.
    (d) The  Cook County Board may transfer to the Cook County 
Forest Preserve District appropriate unimproved real estate 
owned by the Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium 
District at the time of its dissolution. After the dissolution 
of the District, any land owned by the District at the time of 
its dissolution remains subject to any leases and encumbrances 
that existed upon the dissolution of the District and, if the 
land is subject to a lease, the land may not be taken by any 
unit of government during the term of the lease.
    (e) Upon the dissolution of the Suburban Cook County 
Tuberculosis Sanitarium District, any levy imposed by the 
dissolved District is abolished.  In accordance with subsection 
(b) of Section 12 of the State Revenue Sharing Act, the tax 
base of the dissolved Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis 
Sanitarium District shall be added to the tax base of Cook 
County.

 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.



Effective Date:  7/24/2006